Rebecca Win
{{family name hatnote|lang=Burmese|Rebecca Win}}
{{Infobox musical artist
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| native_name = ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း
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| birth_name = May Hnin Nu
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1986|02|15}}
| birth_place = Myitkyina, Burma
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| genre = Pop
| occupation = Singer-songwriter, model
| instrument = {{hlist|Vocals | Guitar}}
| years_active = 2004–present
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Rebecca Win ({{langx|my| ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း}}, {{IPA|my|jèbɛʔka̰ wɪ́ɰ̃|pron}}; born May Hnin Nu ({{lang|my| မေနှင်းနု }} {{IPA|my|mè n̥ɪ́ɴ nṵ|}}) on 15 February 1986) is a retired Burmese singer and model.{{cite news |title=တစ်ကိုယ်တော် မီနီအယ်လ်ဘမ်လေးထွက်ရှိဖို့ ကြိုးစားနေတဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း |url=https://www.kumudranews.com/news-28999 |work=Kumudra |date=7 July 2018 |language=my}}{{dead link|date=December 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} She performed in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Naypyidaw.{{cite news |title=အရှေ့တောင်အာရှနိုင်ငံများ၏ အားကစားနှင့် ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာထုတ်ဖော်|url=https://www.moi.gov.mm/npe/?q=news/12/12/2013/id-7968 |work=NPE |date=11 December 2013|language=my}} Rebecca Win was a judge on the major televised singing competition Eain Mat Sone Yar (Where dreams meet) and also Myanmar's Got Talent.{{cite news |title="သီချင်းဆိုပြိုင်ပွဲတွေမှာ ဒိုင်လုပ်ရင် ပရိသတ် အမုန်းခံရတယ်"လို့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း ပြော |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2020/02/18/215818.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=18 February 2020|language=my}}{{cite news |title=ရိုးရာသီချင်း ကချင်ဘာသာဖြင့်သီချင်းခွေထွက်ရှိသည့် ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း |url=https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/107071.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=10 February 2018|language=my}}
In 2013, she was appointed as a women's ambassador, along with Chit Thu Wai for Myanmar to raise awareness for gender equality and women's rights.{{cite news |title=Women leaders to receive awards this week |url=https://www.mmtimes.com/national-news/8609-women-leaders-to-receive-awards-this-week.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=27 October 2013}}
Early life and education
Rebecca Win was born on 15 February 1986 in Myitkyina, Kachin State to a Burmese father and a Kachin mother. One of four siblings. Her aunt L Khun Yi, her cousins L Lun Wa and L Seng Zi, are also popular singers.{{cite news |title=မိုင်လေးကို စိတ်မဆိုးဘူးဆိုတဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း |url=https://www.duwun.com.mm/entertainment/cele-yatkwat/miuelkiu-sitmiuuiute-ebkaw-id20128 |work=Duwun |date=23 November 2018 |language=my}} Her family moved to Yangon when she was just six months old. She converted to Christianity while she joined the church choir at age six. As of 2006, she was a final year Japanese major at the University of Foreign Languages, Yangon.{{cite news |title=အဆိုတော်ရေဗက္ကာဝင်းနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း |url=http://sdtimedaily.com/2018/02/14/me09-35/ |work=The Standard Time Daily |date=14 February 2018|language=my}}
Career
Rebecca Win was first noticed when she entered Yangon-based City FM Radio's Music Idol contest in 2004. In 2016, she prepared to release three solo albums.{{cite news |title=တစ်ကိုယ်တော် တေးစီးရီးသုံးခွေအတွက် ပြင်ဆင်နေတဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း |url=https://www.kumudranews.com/art/%25e1%2580%2590%25e1%2580%2585%25e1%2580%25b9%25e1%2580%2580%25e1%2580%25ad%25e1%2580%25af%25e1%2580%259a%25e1%2580%25b9%25e1%2580%25b1%25e1%2580%2590%25e1%2580%25ac%25e1%2580%25b9-%25e1%2580%25b1%25e1%2580%2590%25e1%2580%25b8%25e1%2580%2585%25e1%2580%25ae%25e1%2580%25b8%25e1%2580%259b%25e1%2580%25ae%25e1%2580%25b8%25e1%2580%259e |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113115824/http://www.kumudranews.com/art/%E1%80%90%E1%80%85%E1%80%B9%E1%80%80%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9A%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B1%E1%80%90%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B9-%E1%80%B1%E1%80%90%E1%80%B8%E1%80%85%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9E/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 13, 2016 |work=Kumudra |date=10 November 2016|language=my}}{{cite news |title=အနုပညာသက်တမ်း ၁၂ နှစ်အကြာမှ ပထမဆုံး တစ်ကိုယ်တော်ခွေထွက်ရှိမယ့် ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း |url=http://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/20072 |work=Mizzima |date=9 November 2016 |language=my}}
She released an album "Meka" on 9 February 2018, which was with Kachin language.{{cite news |title=ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း ရဲ့ "Maka" ကချင်ဘာသာတေးစီးရီး စာနယ်ဇင်း မိတ်ဆက် |url=http://www.myanmarcelebrity.com/2018/02/maka.html?m=1 |work=Myanmar Celebrity News |date=9 February 2018 |language=my}}{{cite news |title=" ကချင်ဘာသာစကားနဲ့သီဆိုထားတဲ့ တစ်ကိုယ်တော်အခွေ ထွက်ရှိမည့် ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း |url=https://www.myanmarload.com/news/9526 |work=Myanmarload |date=16 August 2017|language=my}}
She was announced to Media on 3 April 2020, she is taking rest from the professional life of music and model and requested to all not to call her as Rebecca Win of professional name.{{cite news |title=အနုပညာသည်ဘဝကို အပြီးအတိုင်စွန့်လွှတ်လိုက်ပြီလို့ ကြေညာလိုက်တဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း |url=https://www.duwun.com.mm/entertainment/local-celebrity/anupaiwkiu-apiatiuswnlwhtteamyliu-kealiukte-ebkkaw-id30369 |work=Duwun |date=4 April 2020 |language=my}}
Discography
- Takha Talay (Sometimes)
- Shote Kone Daw Me (Getting Complicated), collaborated with Yi Mon
- Maka (2018)
TV show
Personal life
Rebecca Win married to Kaung Kyaw Swe, a businessman. They celebrate their wedding reception in Judson Church in Yangon for traditional wedding on May 4 2013, and also Sedona Hotel Yangon, on 10 May 2013, and concluded a no-fault divorce in 2020.{{cite news |title=အိမ်ထောင်သက်တမ်း(၆)နှစ်ကျော်မှာ ခင်ပွန်းနဲ့ တရားဝင်ကွာရှင်းလိုက်တဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း |url=https://www.duwun.com.mm/entertainment/cele-yatkwat/aimeaktmnhskeamha-pwnne-tawkwahliukte-ebkkaw-id28433 |work=Duwun |date=24 March 2020 |language=my}}